CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The influential Jesus Miracle Crusade International Ministry has convinced a former leader of the communist rebel group New People’s Army and his followers to embrace God following a daring mission in the hinterlands of Bukidnon province in southern Philippines.
A small team of “prayer warriors” led by Brother Danny Cuarteros recently braved the mountains of San Fernando town just to meet with the group of Alde Salusad, who is now the leader of the New Indigenous People’s Army Reform or NIPAR after he broke away with the NPA.
Cuarteros said they travelled to the province and trekked the mountains for nearly 7 hours with nothing but the words of God and a strong faith to convince Salusad’s group to “surrender to the will of the Lord and embrace him and his teachings and eventually ended being baptized by the JMCIM.”
“And we did, we were able to convince the group of Ka Alde through the power of God and his words to surrender and embrace God in their lives. It was very moving, it’s so emotional and in the end, God is victorious,” he told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
He said not only Salusad and his followers accepted and embraced God; they also donated a parcel of land for the JMCIM so it can put up a chapel in the heart of NIPAR’s stronghold in the town.
According to Cuarteros, Salusad also told village leaders to play worship songs every morning to remind them of God and the glorious mission of JMCIM.
“That journey of faith and mission from God has become one of my most unforgettable experiences and it is a mission of peace,” Cuarteros said. “Ka Alde and his group accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour and they wanted to start a new life through the JMCIM.”
Salusad, who is also being hunted by the now rival group NPA, has reportedly wanted to be part of the government’s militia force or CAFGU which is the acronym for Civilian Armed Force Geographical Unit, to protect communities from lawless elements in the province.
Cuarteros also said his younger sister, Eliza Buenabides, whom he did not see for a long time and her husband, sheltered his group while they were in San Fernando town.
The JMCIM – led by an internationally known pastor Evangelist Wilde Almeda and his wife, Assistant Pastor Lina Almeda – is one of the largest and most successful apostolic churches based in the Philippines with millions of followers in the country alone. It has stations also in the United States and other parts of the world.
It was also Almeda who led a dozen “prayer warriors,” including Cuarteros, to a miraculous journey and mission of 100-days of fasting and prayers that victoriously convinced the rebel group Abu Sayyaf to release the 21 Sipadan hostages in Talipao town in Sulu province in 2000.
Almeda’s group also managed to convince a senior rebel leader Galib Andang, alias Commander Robot and his group to embrace the Christian faith and baptized them. And the victorious peace mission is related in vivid detail in the book, “Miracles in Moroland” written by American professor Dr. Sam Smith. (Mindanao Examiner)
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